"A foppish footman (left) wearing a cutaway livery coat with pantaloons, bunch of seals, and other fashionable trappings, holds a nosegay, admiring himself in a wall-mirror: "This I think will strike the Female Villager, the dear smiling rogues will never be able to resist the little Jenny Seequy of my dress and manners." An ape on a chain (right) seems to imitate his pose. Two country servants (right) gaze angrily at him: a footman (right) says: "Nan did'st ever see such a conceited Monkey! old Jack the Baboon is a fool to urn!!" She says: "The house will be turned topsy turvy by these Lunneners."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: footmen -- Servants -- Nosegays -- Furnishings: wall mirror -- Console-table -- Pets: monkey -- Slang: "Jenny Seequy" (Je ne sais quoi) -- Slang: "Lunneners" (Londoners) -- Male costume: seals., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 18 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number., and Mounted on verso of leaf 37 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 30, 1799, by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
